Climate Change in World Politics [Paperback]

John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). He considers how the international system treats the problem of climate change, analysing the ways in which this has been defined by the international community and the interests and alignments of state governments.

In Climate Change in World Politics, John Vogler & examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). & an extraordinary study that is very highly recommended for community, college, and university library Political Science and Environmental Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. (Midwest Book Review, midwestbookreview.com, Vol. 11 (6), June, 2016)

John Vogler is Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations at Keele University, UK. He has published widely on the international relations of the environment, the global commons and the external relations of the European Union. For over twenty years he was chair of the British International Studies Association working group on the environment and he is currently a member of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change, Economics and Policy.

Multi-faceted view of climate change from an International Relations, global governance, justice, sustainable development and national identity perspective

The author has worked on global environmental issues for more than 20 years and is a member of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Links climate change to ongoing economic, financial and political crises

Author focuses on the explicitly political and international dimension of the wider climate problem

Includes a dedicated chapter on the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Conveló5